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- 7i' V Tie ASTORIAN Ml till laffe.t circulation of any papei oo tha Columbia Klvir I j t, , tir r; ; r- rr.i n TEE DAILY ASTORIAN Is t&e llffest ani test (aper oa tna Colom&Ia River FULL ARBOCIATHT) PWI5SS RKPORT, VOL. XLIX. ASTU1UA. 0KE00N. FRIDAY' MORNING, NOVEMBER- 25, 18!8. NO. 116 ' ill VJ'I, A.MA J.JJ V i The Only ... IN ASTORIA ... Our Bp.clntty; BTOVCB AND HAINGCH Wo know tho buainena. Twenty ycara experience If you wait a GOOD Store, aoo the atock at tho Eclipse Hardware Co. Best Thanksgiving Yet v... ..'.iwwif,.': Giiffin OUM "We Buy and NEW TODAY Premier Pure Pure Coffee. Foard HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Blankets, Comforts, Bed Spread ...Itaee GiiFtains and Drapery Goods... heetitigs, Towels and Crashes. Everything Necessary in the Above' Qoods and at Bottom Prices. hiaaH WaaaVl THE LEADING HOUSE OF Stove Store Wa'v great daal to b thank ful for. w HAflMriJuiosl" Moat of Unrl Bm'e boy are bom gala and th.y brought to him on of th bait acquisition w htv yet claimed. Wnn you sit down to four dak, alt down to Ibt bot tlio. Tttm. lnkt, hoidtrg, ptrMra, ittonrr, aunp boM, miMllM botU-w ht vMTthlnf, boib olvcMt utd in ipnlY in ibla lino. Wbjr not & Reed. MOTTO i Sell Everything" Fruit Extracts Stokes go, " Baking Powder it o Spices Pure Teas. COOPEB Speeial Saturday Sale..- v NEW PLUSH CAPES Twenty to Thirty inchee in length, full aweep, will be sold at COo on the dol lar. Alw CLOTH CAPES AND JACKETS Oront Driven In DreNH Goodn, $1.25 tDd $1.50 Kid Cloves - $1.00 Best Teazle pomn Fid flaoskeig Clogbtm -Flgarid Dock $8.50 liiekiDtosh 9e 10c $5.00 Agent for New Mack intosh Dress Suita. Don't Mist These Bargains McAllen &. McDonnell 470-471 Coauotrdil BtiW. ASTORIA. ' ltt-ia Tblrd Stmt. PORTLAND. OR. ASTORIA PORTLAND'S SECRET FOES ASTORIA'S HALT IN GROWTH Hill Forces the 0. Rj . Door and, With the "Wheat Pool," - PIccks the Farmer-Goose. XL PORTLAND. Or.., Nor. H.TMUr Avtortait; Tho flnA quoMJon for oo to oiMldor to, vAmhit Ai Tko riMl torlo ' otiould, on ooo QomIIvo nntnto Iowa and dr nattwal oofwUttotio, fco. com tho chief oporv'of tho ColuMMo tln. Or. to rdueo It tD tho laat onalr oto. would Astnrlo Br. 04 rar oxpurt Uio Point, odd moro to thl voluo of ear oiportoM. product! tnS ncrt ho WMKti of our pnlo mora thao anr othar potnt an tho I'arino NorthwMt? I am mot with tba aiiowar ittavt Aatorta boo rallarar oonniari now. and yat doca sot do tho axporUnr, A Faalty Thli. K la ctalmad, (5am OkjMtlaa. maftaTa). practlraKy. Qmt ft U not tha natural acaport of oar product aa axaJnot Port land, nut tfcia objortlon la faulty in It. Mtr. Tha foil ura of Aatorta to rport our wtiMHt la du to tho titatanco of un natural oondltlona. Tha O. R. A N. atanda In tha door and pmventa rhat rult. Im orlal Doattton. ' rovwlrw the hmt graving dlntrlcta. rnal'lra It to mfUM tha tt Dour. A. ft C. R. R. qu traffa prlvllco with thnoa anjorod bjr mmprtlnr rallroaoa. It tfo.li tha A. ft C R. R. a rd. 10 ha ojktvU1 on lorl rato only. It rrfuiwo to flv It eurti rM aa Htl mak It a "common point" with TVroma and Baattl.. which aro aqul-dUtant with It fron tha what flnlcla. It dlx'rlmlna.tao ainat tha Aa torla mad. It cimo ttia unoaiural eon dlilona tha oroduca Um rrault of wt.b4 It mim Tha rMlv to faulty. It la not not a conrluilva anawr. It karra! opon tha quratlon of aeaport aupramacr, utWIrr naKural oondMtona. to bo dtad upoo tha aaMled prlnclplra of ooromarco. Thoaa prlnctpHio I will conalder In my nit ltlr. , , Rut br1da that. It la tkh trua that any ttwt ha yet boo had of that qufatfon. aven with tha allt H O, R. ft N. ttndlnf in Tat,aV. tha door and forrln tha Aatorla, and Columbia River Railroad to art undrr unmxtural condltlona and a local rcd om"y. For rho A. ft C. R. R. U atm under proceaa of conntrortton. It la an tho tianda of tho onnatructlon compony. which ha until January 1. 1W. to turn It ovr to tho oporWuir dfparttnent Eventa. how. aver, may chauwo tWa atoAua very toon. and Ita ultimata ownara may auddenly tako chara of that road. It la demon, atrabla propoaltlon. thoultb, that avon Hi fax of thla dlacrlmlnatlon tho A. ft C. R. R. can, with m wheat buyer In rh llald. aecura oil the wheat for oiPort t Aawria. Simply borauao h would be worth ao much more at that port than at any other port of the Parti North went. Thoae In chaxie of that road now, how ver. are not rolled upon to tackle that problem. It can wuH tho fullneaa of ktme. when K ultimata owner atia.ll be at the helm. When that time shall come tt may be found that tta ownera will have control of the O. R. N. Co. "a road alao. and the Short Line betkles. In ..1 li la ihoucht 10 be reA.orbly cer- ..i- .. m,,., will h the case. It I manlfwt. theivfiire. that the roly i -holly faulty, and the problem la open for d.tmte with our merclwuita and bujl neaa tnon. Tho O. R. N. Co.'a hired writer, un deratood to bo "Col." IVt Donan. lately In the Mercury deride Why So Antorla boiwuao of lxr Growth. failure to row In the past two yeara, mrtwHh atandlnit the certainty of aocurlna; a rail road. Uut lVt knew full well, when he penned ithait O. R. ft N. venom, that tho ONLY CERTAINTY which could have made Astoria (rtw would have been tho certtUnty that aha would bo the ie. port of thla hoaln on ralrway coonecrton. oniM th a-nnoral oubllo believed that It would only bo local road no growth waa poaiilble. To Iniuro that hellef nd btackon Aotorib,' proapoou the fu ture chief aeaport. tho O. R. t N. etood In tho door refuilof uaual comrtfoo point ratea. II retained a venal Pm to howl tho tha aWpo would bo forced to go to Portland aa tho boat aeaport, and tha OrefiWilan timed tta plpea In hnrmony with that aonr. navln brlak aupport from the wheat buyer and elevator men. At the mim time. H aultod Thoao who wore puahlnir Hie A. ft C. to completion to preewre a profound alienee aa to It purpoae a well aa tta ownership. Of ourae, Aarorl (In face of previous dis appointment) cculd not grow, under auch oondtUon. becouse of ck of public confldonco In her aeivrwrt iiremcy. Now let u Inquire why thl concert of dorlkn and hoetlUty? The motive la a mntter of vast import- Why Thi nnce to be known to HoatllllyT rortlnnd morcharnts and nroperty owners, even though the Van.lorbllta will most likely make Astorlu buy the western terminus of their oopJui-to-oocin rout limt knowledge will enable them the sooner to reverse the conditions so inimical to Portland' growth and trndo. The king pin Is "Jim" Hill's control of tho O. R. & N. Co.. which I learn, can be broken up at any time ny the Vamlerltilts through a guaranty of tho Inter est for three yerirn upon Btock of that eom- The King Tin. tho preferred pany Hill's nollcy Is. of eours to build up Senttlo olid the traffic over tho Omit Northern, now lenplnt? to the front with giant strides under tho pres ent manipulations of (lie O. R. & N. Co.'s policy. He can accomplish hi object only by preventing A.torla from becom ing the chief seaport of the Tactile North west, as these letters will fully show, since wheat charters at Astoria would be only about Kb (as at San Francisco) against SI at Seattle. ' II 111' purpose, & H. to Stand in tee then, to prevent Astoria' rivalry I tha fcaota of that htootimy and tho ooore of Donan'' dirt To ofToot tho object of holding the Co lumbia export at Portland, a pool w aaeaoaarr fld was or. Tho Wheat ganUad. It court -of fool, , the .Iranaportation com ponies, tho wheat buyers, and tho elevator ownrth farmer belnr tho gooso to b plucked, bv oidtntallr. of a wHMloo dollar or zftor?. A to ail common point a In the wheat field raached bjr both tho O. R. ft N. and tho Northora It was noceaaary to make aaaafactury diffarontUla. Aa to all wheat nekla furcher north "Jim" Hill could fwee tho Hon' (hare of the traffic over hi mad. Aa to tho O. R. ft N. and the Northern, the Portland wheat buyer (who lo aro tha Puget Bound buyora) and elevator soon wro (h , efficient agenoteaj of tha pooftng. They agreed amonarst thomaotve upon tho price they would kindly s!!w tho farmer at the railway atavtlona. That prloa waa to be the same, whoeher tho wheat should be hipped to Taooma or to Portland. Then they were to dlartrtbute tho ahtptnenta of whnilt and tho freight ratea upon prln clplea of railroad dlfreronttal" ao that ea4 road, would (rot a aattefaotory ahAre of tho buMnoaa. On account of larger ship bottom tha charters at Tacoma were about 35 is against Sa at Portland. To offset thl disadvantage, tha 0. R. ft N. wo, by the whoat pool, allowed enough higher freight rate to enable It, as agent of the pool, to furnish free rarhtrrage and towage to Columbia river grain etilpa ait to come out of tba farmer goose. In arriving at the proper figure the O. R. ft N. Co.'a shorter haul and water level grade were taken Into awotmt. modeled by the coaling facul ties of the Northern at both end of Its mountain grade. This pooling reouked. about three years ago. In th O, R-. ft N. Co.'s providing for ail ocean wheat ship Street of oornlng up our river free tho rol. towaga and free lighter- re. and thl eatua I the key to tho efforts of that company to abolish Independent pilotage on, the Columbia river. Even with (Ms bonus, however, tho Portland charters are some t per oent higher than Tacoma charters, owing to 4h analler boxiocne that can reach Portland and tho greater expense of far-lnVuid river narlgaMoa over Inland sea travel. To mam rain thts unnatural condition' of tho exports of thla basin, fhe farmer haa ,. K o auffer, wWh a general The Farmer's resulting loss to the en Loaa." ' tiro Pacific northwestern trade. The farmer la, of course, at the merer of the wheat pool, which alljnr tnm whatever H chooses for hi wheat. On the eiltnd) million, and a half tons of wheat produced In this basin for ISM. the Colombia fanner geta over two mUrkma leas than the California farmer for an equal product. Much ot this suhstracted value goea into the pockHta of the wheat pool. O. W. Mc Near b credited with the statement that his reason for buying a 125.000 wheat warehouse In Portland was that he could make a artV'Otr nrofto here thiui In Siui Francisco on hla wheat business. Does It sem atranee to anyone that tho O. R. & N. vo.'i hired writers should defame and belittle As I It Strange? toria aa a seaport? Does It seem strange that the O. R. ft N. Co. should li-ad tho struggle to hoM on to these un natural condltlcr under such clroum stancee? Conditions, be It known, wholly at variance with the Interest of the Union Pacific, whlcb Is Portland's only true friend. Yet thl series of letters will. I feel sure, make It phUn to every Port ainder that this valuable natural ally of Portland, and of Astoria as well. Is o lifting It own throat and relegating Rirtkutd to an inferior place when It should, and with Astoria aa the seaport would quickly take first rank among Pacific coast cities. Having disposed of "Col." Pat' shallow argument, my next letter will show that Aatorla as tho chief aeaport would give our farmers Liverpool price instead of China price, a now, for their wheat and flour, under the wheat pool domination. It Is well, perhaps, to add a caution aa to our really great newspaper. It mo nopoly of the newspaper A . field and Its powerful Caution. - Influence on public sen timent la a most dan gerous factor in Portland's future. Special Interests aro so liable to hire Its support! The wheat pool and other special Interests aro looking out for such agencies, to help themselves, though It should result rn holding Portland and all Oregon back. A toll-talo story on this lino Is found In the statistics showing more rapid growth of 'Washington state and of Seattle han of Oregon and Port land. The. World's almannc shows Wash ington's population In 1SS0 aa 75,116. while Oregon's wos 17i,78; In 1S90, as 319. SM. vhllo Oregon's was S13.767. It shows Se attle's population now nearly equal to Portland's whore ten years ago It was only half as large. A PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN. TO WKNIl WAR REVENUE LAW. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2i.-The com- I mlssloner of Internal revenue, In hla an nual report, the principal feature or which was mado public !n July last, rec ommends that the war revenue law be amended so ns to allow a discount of S per cent to purchasers of 3100 or more Instead of 1 per cent as now provided. Vnlcss such action is taken, tho com missioners say,, a very large Increase In the number of stamp deputies will- be necessary. The number of Internal rev. cnuo stamps Issued during th year was l,4i2,27i,189, of the voluo of W-.iS.933. TRArriC ArWOCIATIONS ARB NOT YET ABOLISHED. Commla loner Goddard, of tho Trunk Lino Bay fluprem Court Decision Ha Not Altered tho Association. NEW YORK. Nov. K-Of the status of tha Local Trafflo Association, survivor of tho Joint Trafflo AsocicAvflon, -which wa disbanded on tho dechnon of tho TJnltad CrMUt supremo oourt, George R. Blanch. ard. formerly tha euwootatloa eommia aioner, said teat nfcht; "I oonsldor tt quit tueortaln whether eongreaa win 1ak any action la regard Co tho pooling law at tha oomtna; ssaton. Th Joint Trafflo AjsoWation I now dk vldad Into two BoparaU aeeocJatlono, tha Central Trafflo Freight Asaodatloa, with Mr. Tucker aa commlsslooar, and fh Contral Trafflo Passenger Association, wkh Mr, Dormld a eoamiaafonor. OowrnlMloner James B. Ooddard. of tho Trunk Lina Aasootaftm, aM that U ha not chanced ka agroamont aa tha aaaocJaUon waa not affected by To so. pram court decision. ' Chauncey 1L Depow, praaldent; of tho Joint Trafflo Association, when asked what was to become of tho individual members of that board of managers, moat of whom have no other duties wVth tha road which they represent, replied: "When the nsef urn of tho members of that board eeaaca In their present ca pacity, It will bo time enough to make plan for tha future. "It t trua that these men have been Instructed to wind up the affairs of the Joint Trafflo Association without delay, but It may be that the several roads win And ft to their Interests to pre errs tho committee a a bureau of Information. Tho convenlenc and value of such a central body for hi tsr-oorotn u nioation and conference ha been clearly demon- atrated. Tho different Hne can settle little disputes and avoid Motion mora easily through tho medium of such a body than In any other way. "Suppose, for instance, that word reaches the oar of President Calloway that the some of tho Irregularity in rate making1 la being practiced on the Penn sylvania. He telephoned Mr. Harden, tho New York Central' representative In tho tptreau of information, and th kater at ono tuna to Mr. Gray, the Pennsylvania' representative, and says: " TVhat is there In thlsr Mr. Gray, be ing In conisuot personal oommunsoa- tton with President Thompson, of the Pennsylvania, ascertain the facts Im mediately and the trouble is ascertained and stopped without red tape and without delay incident to officio! corrtnpond- TORPE DO-BOAT DAVIS MAKES REQUIRED TIME. Ran Over Twenty-Three Knots on Her Official Trial Trip, a Knot More Than Required by Contract. PORTLAND. Nov. It-The torpedo-boat Davla today gave her builder. Wolff ft Z wicker, cause to celebrate Thanksgiving by proving herslf the fastest craft of her kind ever built on the Pacific coast. Not only did she moke her official trial of two hours successfully, but she ran at an average speed of 23H knots an bour-a full knot In excess of the requirements. The performance Is more remarkable from the fact that thl is only her sec ond official trial The Davis went to Cathlamet. on the Columbia river. Wednesday afternoon and ran- to Pillar Rock this morning, starting from there on her trial at noon. In two hours sho made S3 miles, shore measurement, averaging 3S2 revolutions per minute, instead of $70, aa specified by the government. Not a bearing was heated and not oven a minor accident oc curred In the engine or boiler rooms. She took a flying run, turning faster and fast. er, till sho reached 390 revolutions, a paoo which h kopt up for an hour and three-quarters. when the indicator stowed 412. however, Lieutenant Cojt mandor Drake, president of tho trial board, asked tho contractors to alow down, and from that time forward the peed waa held down to a small excess of tho require ment. (Lieutenant Commander Drake sent the followang dispatch to Socretary of the NJavy Long: "Tho Davis la first torpedo-boat on Pa cific coast to make one knot more, than contract speed. Revolutions averaged 3S1 No undue friction of engines or exces sive vibration of hull. Two hours con secutive run; no turn." INTERNAL CR1STS ONE WAY. INTERNATIONAL THE OTHEIt. If Spain Acoedcs to America's Demands Her People Will Revolt; If She Doea Not. War Will Follow. LONDON, Nov. 2i.-Tho Madrid cor respondent of the Dolly Mall says: "The cabinet will make a final decision Friday, but It is agreed In principle to authorize Senor Montero Rlos, president of the Spanish commission, to sign the peace trenty, although the commissioners may bo Instructed to Insist upon lta ratification by the cortea. "It Is believed this decision wi'l provoke an internal crisis. It Is reporrea that tho Carllsts have smuggled 12,000 Mauser rifle Boroea tho frontier.' . : . ' STAMFORD LOST TO BERKELEY The University cT CtTlfcrEti TeaiaKofattiiiRatcifcf STXKFosaVtibt Rot 'tctiz Cinif ftrt!liiflfb!MyfJ Corlnf A : Sa6Wat6rni--Mca!iia Wi'ni ' Weatcti Cnaxplonsaip.' BAN FRANCISCO. Nov. Jt-Tha. eight. annual Thanksgiving day football gam between the university of California and Leland Stanford university was played thl afternoon In the preaeoc of K.oot pectatoti, and; after a delay of aevea years, California achieved her Aril foot ball victory over Stanford, by a cor of B to 0. In three game th tcor -was tied. and four times Stanford won. This year, for th first Urn In the hiatorv nf Imer-collegiafe football on th Paotflo coact. th under graduate of Berkeley know how rt foci Co bo winner. By every football test the Berkeley team today wa superior, ber men outclassing Stanford both in team work and an Individual pUy After tha game had beea On flv minute U was dearly California's day, and thenceforth the fight became merely a matter of aoora Only one during th entire gam wa tho monotony of Inferiority .-elleved. On the Stanford two-yard Una Murphy, Stan ford' quarterback, dropped back for a kick. The ball rose hdgh In the air. de scending above fh five-yard line, where Murphy himself cleverly caught It and broke away for a magnificent 90-yard run, being finally downed on tho 24-yard line. Murphy, who 4a Stanford' star player, waa hurt tin) and again, and, akhough ha remained ta the gam to tha bitter eod. ho waa practically useles for th brilliant work ordinarily expected from him. T-. , au;d fallino SNOW PHILADELPHIA. Nov. W.-On a field kne-deep In mud tho university of Penn sylvania foocbal! team this afternoon de feated Cornell by a. score of U to t It is doubtful if ever a gam ha beea played under more unfavorable eondi tlona, both a to field and tha weather. A snow storm of almost blizzard propor tion set In and continued without a let up until the game had been concluded, CLOSE GAME IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 24. The western foot ball championship goes to Michigan, On a field that waa simply perfect for fast fovHba'4. and before a crowd of 11,000, th Maroon of Chicago went down before th ma lie and blue of Michigan today, by score of 12 to U. ATE TURKEY AND LAUDED CROWING ntiXDSIHP. Thanksgiving Dinner at Hotel Cecil Made the Occasion of Glorification Santiago Holds First Celebration. LONDON. Nov. 2I.-The Thanksgiving banquet of American society In London, which was held at the Hotel Cecil this evening, waa for the glorification of Anglo-American friendship. Three hundred American and their English guests sat at table under entwined flag of the two nations. Two notable speeches were made, ono by Henry White, American charge d'affalrs, and tho other by Sir Edwin Arnold, who waa supposed to b nearly at he point of death from par alysis, but who dragged himself into th banquet hall a&ainst the orders of hi physician. loaning on the arm of hi Japanese wife, and supported by a cana SOMETHING NEW IN SANTIAGO. SANTIAGO, Nov. M.-Santlago today celebrated Us first Thanksgiving sine American occupation. All ships In the harbor war decorated with bunting and officers entertained friends at dinner. All regiments celebrated a well as possible under tho drcumatanoes. Turkeys war few but hopes are entertained by Amnri oon that friendfl In the north will ship turkeys to them In tlmo for thslr Christ mas dinner. ' "f Ike Ror la the niftiest grade baKIag powder kaowa. Actual testa aoow It goeeoa. third farther taaa aay ether bread. 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